San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-10-05
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

HE Dhllhb lOuCltb lut IlOht-
ton Post on the raw in the matter OF re-
frigerator inactivity.
The project of advertising this city
has apparently stopped at the passage
OF resolution apprOprlating thirty per
cent. OF all monies subscribed for i'm
prOvement to advertising the city and
making known its resources.
The Yelled Prophet made his entry
into st. Louis last night and gave some
very suggestive scenes in the course of
his pageant which his exOellency, the
President who witnessed the procession,
will do well to heed. Beginning with
the expulsion of Lucifer 1t ended with
BelshaZZar's feast.
The anarchist defense fund looms up.
Thousands of dollars will be subscribed
and hundreds of thousands OF petition
ers will pray that that little hemp bee in
November be postponed indefinitely.
The prospects of pardon are not flatter-
ing.
Mr.. POwDERLY's speech, at MinneapO-
lis, was conservative, temperate, de-
cided In it's tone and Just such speech
as those who know him best would eX-
pect from him. Ii was in no sense a ia
| natical harrangue. Ii showed deep
| acquaintance with some OF the evils that
afllict this nation, and sensible view Of
| the remedies was plainly set forth.
BRITISH landlordism is working it's
way In Iowa and evictiOns are following
each other in rapid succession on the
McGregOr railway tract, which was sold
| by the railway to English capitalists, the
title being In dispute by actual settlers.
Let congress prohibit the ownership OF
land by aliens and this thing will come
to a perpetual end.
The Chicago News. probably the most
interruptions paper in the democratio
ranks, asserts that the negroes in Texas
voted almost solidly for prohibition.
The force of untruthfulness could go no
farther The cOlored prohibition vote
ranged from fifteen to twenty-five per
cent. OF that vote and no more.
On the supposition that the incompre-
hensible is the truly wise, the Atlanta
Constitution must regard Bayard as a
man OF profound wisdom. 1t says: "The
understand Bsyard. This is not re-
marksble. Very few people in this
world understand Mr.. Bayard." 1t goes
without saying that were James g.
Blaine secretary OF state, my lord Mar
quis OF Salisbury would have no trouble
in understanding him.
Gov. Ross, appealed to by the Ger
man and English cOlsuls at Galveston to
oountermand the order OF DIR. Ruther-
ford, state quarantine officer, refusing
free entry to German and an English
vessel coming from infected ports, re-
plies sustaining the action OF his health
officer, and says that the health OF the
state is paramount to the demands Of
commerce.
The New York Sun is Of opinion that
Cleveland will have abundant leisure TO
travel after the expiration Of his term of
office, and wonders IL ii can be possible
that his determination to swing around
the American circle just now is induced
by any desire to look after his presiden-
tial fences. The SUMS director ray pierces
the true inwardness Of this presidential
journey.
POWELL CLAYTON, OF Arkansas, has
still realizing sense OF the fitness OF
things. Himself secessiOnist, know
ing that all secessiOnlsts were demo-
Gratis, also knowing that LuCifer was
the original Observation-Disclosures Ia
method in the madness OF Gov. Powell
Clayton, when he eXclaims concerning
the southern states-"They would
rather suffer the tOrments of the damn
ed with democrat, than enjoy the
pleasures of heaven with republican.
GOD bless the hand that threw the
bomb, )" was the fervid exclamation of a
Cincinnati socialist, at n meeting held
there in behalf of the Chicago anarch-
i-ts. The honest men who condemn
the action OF the Chicago court, because
the bomb was not traced directly to
each OF the seven condemned, do not
stOp to cOnsider that this conspiracy TO
murder was as wide as the membership
OF the organization, and that the muir
der In Haymarket square is approved by
every anarchist from Herr Most down.
The Herr himself is quaking in his
boots and is liable to arrest as an Access
sorry before the fact.
The democracy of Ohio are not over
whelmed with the burden of Judge
Jhurman's services in the gubernatO-
rial campaign. Judge Thurman says
ClnphatiCally: 81 shall make no speech
~ If can avoid It," Judge Thurman
knows Ohio. He knows the calibre of
the democratic nominee. lie knows the
long list Of defaulting democratic Of
Ulcers. He knows the unsavOry record
that his party has made in Hamilton
cOunty-and, knowing these things, he
does not intend to kill himself over the
herculesn task of gslvsnizing the dead
democracy of his state into life.
If THE Dallas News never has any
thing more to answer for in the way OF
iransgressiOn than for so warmly defind.
ing Its views on prohibition. and de-
Tending itself from the criticism Of the
Advocate for so doing, it can very we'll
dispence with the prayers of the Baptist
convention. TO an ordinarily reveren-
tisl mind that act of praying for the
Dallas News was nothing more than
blasphemy. 1t savOrs Of the very worst
kind OF religious mOuntebankism, and
will be condemned as such by those who
look thOughtfuIly upon the spirit and
temper Of mind in which prayers are to